Jacob A. Bennett currently lives in Philadelphia where he teaches composition and literature. A graduate of the Goddard College MFA in Creative Writing program, his poetry and criticism has appeared in The Fifth Estate, CONSEQUENCE Magazine, Pocket Smut, The Critical Flame, The Pitkin Review, and The Somerville News. He is currently at work on a play entitled "culture of comment." Here Bennett illuminates the work of poet Bhanu Kapil

Not unnaturally, and in keeping with what I perceive to be the authorís working/writing style, Humanimal: A Project for Future Children has been incubating within me for some time, a book Iíve been living with without ever having read it. Iíd heard parts of it read prior to publication, and now it (more…)